RIVIERA TENNIS SCANDAL

Northern Advocate, 17 February 1926, Page 4

RIVIERA TENNIS SCANDAL

SECOND EDITION

BETTING BING’S CONTROL. SENSATIONAL DISCLOSURES !. PREDICTED. (Received 12.55 p.m.) LONDON, February 15. The Cannes correspondent of the “Star” says; “Several internationally prominent tennis players at present at the Riviera intend to give the commercialism scandal prominence; They promise that the exposures -will surprise the sporting world, showing that the gambling ring which controls the Riviera has now obtained a. grip of tennis, whose players threaten to endeavour to persuade Anglo-American and other federations to put the Riviera on the black list unless tournaments are thoroughly cleansed. Aeseh Liman, in asking the Riviera Federation to undertake the renovating of its own house, says a number of players, supposedly amateurs, are at present under suspicion in connection with the organising of shady halfhidden manoeuvres. He intends to propose that the French Feneration organise future Riviera tournaments, when they will include international . stars such as Wills and Lenglen, in.-. - stead of allowing private organisers to grow rich by exploiting tennis.—A. and N.Z.